Kristen Gillman

Gillman is one of the most decorated junior golfers in recent U.S. history. She won the U.S. Women's Amateur in 2014 and 2018, the Junior PGA Championship in 2014, and the North and South Women's Amateur in 2016. She made a series of successful appearances for the U.S. national teams and won the 2014 Junior Ryder Cup, the 2015 Junior Solheim Cup, the 2016 Toyota Junior Golf World Cup in Japan, the 2018 Curtis Cup, and the 2018 Arnold Palmer Cup at Evian Resort Golf Club in France. She also won the 2018 Espirito Santo Trophy in Ireland with Jennifer Kupcho and Lilia Vu. She won the silver medal with the Mixed team at the 2015 Pan American Games.
Gillman enrolled at the University of Alabama in 2016. She was SEC Freshman of the Year playing for the Alabama golf team and set several school records.
As an amateur, she made six starts on the LPGA Tour, including the 2018 U.S. Women's Open, where she made her first cut and finished T-27th. She won the Century 21 Ladies Golf Tournament on the 2018 Japan LPGA as an amateur beating Ayako Kimura and Sakura Koiwai by four shots. It was the only time she played on the Japan LPGA (did play in the Toto Japan Classic the next year but that was co-sanctioned with LPGA) After she beat JiWon Jeon 7 & 6 in the finals of the Women's amateur held at The Golf Club of Tennessee it was decided to try and qualify as an amateur at the LPGA Q-Series and if she earned an LPGA Tour card would turn pro and forgo her final two years of eligibility at Alabama. She finished T-13th giving her status for the 2019 season and turned professional.
2019 Notes: In her rookie season played in 26 LPGA Tour events making 22 cuts with four top-ten finishes. Was 43rd on the money list with $492,466 in earnings and 35th on the CME points list. She got her first top ten as a professional at the ANA Inspiration. She finished T-6th after a final round 66 placed her six shots back of winner Jin Young Ko. Was T-9th at both the Meijer LPGA Classic and Thornberry Creek LPGA Classic. Her best finish of the year came at the Buick LPGA Shanghai Gillman finished T-3rd, three shots back of winner Danielle Kang. She finished 2nd in the Louise Suggs Rolex Rookie of the Year standings behind Jeongeun Lee6 who won the U.S Women's Open.
2020 Notes: Played in 15 LPGA Tour events making 12 cuts with one top-ten finish. Was 58th on the money list with $215,042 in earnings, placed 53rd on the CME points list. Finished T-33rd at the Gainbridge LPGA at Boca Rio and T-21st at the ISPS Handa Women's Australian Open when COVID-19 put a halt to the LPGA Tour season. During the break, Gillman played in four events on the Womens All Pro Tour. She got her first professional victory at the Hurricane Creek Classic, then won the next event at the Texarkana Children's and was 2nd at the Central Arkansas Open. She won the tour's money race in 2020 with $20,500 in earnings. She returned to the LPGA when it restarted but struggled to regain her form and her best finishes were T-11th at the AIG Women's Open and T-8th at the VOA Texas Shootout.
2021 Notes: Still has been struggling, going into the AIG Women's Open she has played in 18 LPGA Tour events making the cut in 11 and her best finish was T-26th at the KIA Classic.